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SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2011

2011 AWARDS

Filmmakers' Section Grand Prix

directors name

Dustin Feneley

Australia

Born in Sydney in 1982, Feneley is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts Film School. His short films have screened at over one hundred film festivals, including official selections at Cannes, London, Melbourne, Sydney and Bucharest international film festivals. He is currently developing his debut feature Stray.


NIGHT

An elderly couple prepare for bed.

04:31 / Australia / 2005


Snow

A boy explores the thin line between life and death.

14:58 / Australia / 2006


Hawker

A travelling salesman searches for connection.

13:15 / Australia / 2008


Eskimo Kiss

A young man with a disability experiences intimacy for the first time.

10:20 / Australia / 2009


One Title Section Grand Prix

Broken Night

Kyoung-pyo earns a living as an insurance fraudster.One night, he has an accident with a young girl.

Hyojoo Yang | 23:00 | Fiction | 2011 | Korea


Best Director

Broken Night

Kyoung-pyo earns a living as an insurance fraudster.One night, he has an accident with a young girl.

Hyojoo Yang | 23:00 | Fiction | 2011 | Korea


Best Students Director

KISS BILL

With the passionate kind of crush that only 14-year-olds can muster, Angela and Arina dream themselves out of their Stockholm suburb to Berlin. A film about friendship, infatuation and the heartbreak of growing up.

Ina Holmqvist ,Emelie Wallgren | 29:00 | Documentary | 2010 | Sweden


Best Screen play

Script

Four people are invited to join in a 10 minute psychological experiment for a thousand dollars each. But things are not so simple.

Albert Ventura | 29:00 | Experimental | 2010 | Japan


Best Editing

Yuri Lennon's landing on Alpha 46

After his landing on Jupiter moon Alpha64, the cosmonaut Yuri Lennon is confronted with an extraordinary paradox...

Anthony Vouardoux | 14:30 | Fiction | 2010 | Germany


Best Cinematography

LIN

A woman arrives in an unknown country at day break. She appears to be running away from her past.

Piers Thompson | 25:00 | Fiction | 2010 | United kingdom


Best Children Short

Aleksandr

Aleksandr the knitter has long forgotten why he lives suspended above the clouds.

Remy Dereux, Maxime Hibon, Juliette Klauser, Raphaëlle Ranson, Louise Seynhaeve |05:20 | Animation | 2010 | France


Best Mini Short (Under 5mints)

Rubika

Welcome to Rubika, a planet with a fancy gravity.

Script & design by Guillaume Plantevin(Claire Baudean, Ludovic Habas, Mickaël Krebs,Julien Legay, Chao Ma, Florent Rousseau, Caroline Roux, Margaux Vaxelaire) |03:58 | Animation | 2010 | France


Best Original Score

N/A


Best Non Dialogue

Paths of Hate

“Paths of Hate” is a short tale about the demons that slumber deep in the human soul and have the power to push people into the abyss of blind hate, fury and rage.

Damian Nenow | 10:00 | Animation | 2010 | Poland


Best Animation

La détente

IIn a trench during the first world war, a French soldier becomes paralyzed with fear. His mind disconnects from reality and escapes to a toy world.

Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey | 08:30 | Animation | 2011 | France


Best National Short

forgive

Sone is being bullied by her classmate Katase. Utsunomiya who is also Sone’s classmate and her only friend tries to help Sone, but Sone rejects her. There is a secret between Sone and Katase that Utsunomiya is not aware of.

Kiyoto Kawamura | 28:30 | Fiction | 2010 | Japan


Best Hokkaido Short

Snowman and Chocolate

The story of a boy, his snowman, and a very special red scarf.

Shoh Kataoka | 12:00 | Fiction | 2011 | Japan(Sapporo, Tokyo)


Best Contemporary / Experimental Short

The External World

A boy learns to play the piano.

David O'Reilly | 15:00 | Animation | 2010 | Germany


Best Documentary

Guanape Sur

A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guanape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive for the harvest of the birds' excrement.

Janos Richter | 23:01 | Documentary | 2010 | Italy


Best Animation Special Mention

An affectionate summer

On a summer’s afternoon a girl recalls her past. As she does so, the clothes she has just taken off take the form of an insect and begin to eat her.

Asuka Shirata | 07:06 | Animation | 2011 | Japan


Best Original Score Special Mention

Atsushi Wada

Born in 1980. Graduated from Osaka kyoiku University, Image Forum Institute of Moving image and Tokyo University of the Arts. In a Pig's Eye (2010) won the Best Film in Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, and Silver Jabberwocky at Etiuda and Anima. The Mechanism of Spring (2010) premiered at the Venice Film Festival.


SAPPORO Short Fest Special Awards

Sapporo Peace Award

Miyuki's Wind Bell

Against her will, Miyuki must leave Tokyo and take her two young half-brothers to the country home of their quirky grandmother, but when they arrive she will discover that she had to leave her home in order to find it.

Ken Ochiai | 20:00 | Fiction | 2010 | Japan


Children's Choice Award Gold

Red and Green

Red and Green is a film about the relationships which take place between the walk and stop people at street crossing lights.

Geoffrey Abeshouse | 04:10 | Animation | 2010 | Australia


Children's Choice Award Silver

Aleksandr

Aleksandr the knitter has long forgotten why he lives suspended above the clouds.

Remy Dereux, Maxime Hibon, Juliette Klauser, Raphaëlle Ranson, Louise Seynhaeve |05:20 | Animation | 2010 | France


Children's Choice Award Bronze

Invertebrates

A Freshwater Hydra tries to eat a Water Flea, but a very good friend of the flea, the Planarian, will try to save it at all costs…

Harold Díaz-Guzmán Casañas | 12:50 | Animation | 2010 | Cuba


CRYPTON Best Sound Award

The External World

A boy learns to play the piano.

David O'Reilly | 15:00 | Animation | 2010 | Germany


Amino Up Hokkaido New Director Award

Crystallized

Since the accident Satomi obsessively talks to snow-crystals and keeps drawing "letters", praying for her boyfriend’s recovery, who is in coma.

Eiji Shimada | 29:59 | Fiction | 2011 | Japan(Sapporo)


Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Award

Crystallized

Since the accident Satomi obsessively talks to snow-crystals and keeps drawing "letters", praying for her boyfriend’s recovery, who is in coma.

Eiji Shimada | 29:59 | Fiction | 2011 | Japan(Sapporo)


JAPAN Media Up Alternative Awarad

rain town

In this town, since who knows when, rain has never stopped falling. One day, a girl wanders into the deserted town...

Ishida Hiroyasu | 09:55 | Animation | 2011 | Japan